From: Chris Green Sent: 01 July 2005 13:33 On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:21:16PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I have my printer drivers installed in CUPS and
everything else uses
those by selecting printer Oj for the Officejet and Lj for the Laserjet. Gimp seems to send postscript to the printer
even though
I selected one of my CUPS printers, that's a bit brain dead. The Gimp doesn't seem to have drivers for my (pretty
standard) HP printers.
What printers? (model numbers please) and which distro?
Printing can
be "fun" sometimes so there is an element of stabbing in
the dark with
the info you gave us so far :)
Slackware 10.1 with CUPS.
Printers are an HP7310 and an HP1060 (I think). I have the HPLIP drivers installed for the printers and they work well in general. I can print with no problems from firefox for example, it's just that I'm having trouble getting these .GIF and .JPG files to print so they look sensible on an A4 sheet of paper.
Have you installed GimpPrint? I have a completely non-standard (as far as Linux is concerned) Canon S400 and I use CUPS and GimpPrint and its always worked straight out of the box (bet you really wanted to know that :o) ).
Do you have OpenOffice installed (or anything with a decent Word Processor)? A technique I've often used is to open a blank document and then imported an image into it, then just printed the page with the image. It's a useful technique that I've used successfully under Windows, Unix and Linux at various times (assuming that you can print ok from the WP software).
Regards,
Keith ____________ Even before I can say it, it is no more. - Sengai